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Title: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: Ga-67 citrate imaging

Abstract

All gallium-67 citrate scans obtained in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.) were retrospectively analyzed and correlated with the results of bronchoscopy, chest radiography, and endoscopy. There were 164 scans of 95 patients. Twenty scans were from patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; 19 were abnormal, for a sensitivity of 95%. Ga-67 uptake tended to be less in patients receiving therapy for P. carinii pneumonia. Chest radiographs were normal at least initially in three patients with abnormal scans and P. carinii pneumonia. Unusually prominent colonic activity was associated with infection in some patients. No lesions of Kaposi sarcoma showed tracer uptake. Gallium scanning is useful for detecting P. carinii pneumonia and other opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS, but it is not useful for localizing Kaposi sarcoma.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
OSTI Identifier:
7091274
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Radiology; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; CHEST; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSIS; AIDS; GALLIUM 67; INTESTINES; MEDIASTINUM; PATIENTS; SARCOMAS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; BODY AREAS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; GALLIUM ISOTOPES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMIC DISEASES; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; RADIOISOTOPES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES; VIRAL DISEASES; 550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics

Citation Formats

Woolfenden, J M, Carrasquillo, J A, Larson, S M, Simmons, J T, Masur, H, Smith, P D, Shelhamer, J H, and Ognibene, F P. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: Ga-67 citrate imaging. United States: N. p., 1987. Web. doi:10.1148/radiology.162.2.3492009.
Woolfenden, J M, Carrasquillo, J A, Larson, S M, Simmons, J T, Masur, H, Smith, P D, Shelhamer, J H, & Ognibene, F P. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: Ga-67 citrate imaging. United States. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.162.2.3492009
Woolfenden, J M, Carrasquillo, J A, Larson, S M, Simmons, J T, Masur, H, Smith, P D, Shelhamer, J H, and Ognibene, F P. 1987. "Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: Ga-67 citrate imaging". United States. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.162.2.3492009.
@article{osti_7091274,
title = {Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: Ga-67 citrate imaging},
author = {Woolfenden, J M and Carrasquillo, J A and Larson, S M and Simmons, J T and Masur, H and Smith, P D and Shelhamer, J H and Ognibene, F P},
abstractNote = {All gallium-67 citrate scans obtained in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.) were retrospectively analyzed and correlated with the results of bronchoscopy, chest radiography, and endoscopy. There were 164 scans of 95 patients. Twenty scans were from patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; 19 were abnormal, for a sensitivity of 95%. Ga-67 uptake tended to be less in patients receiving therapy for P. carinii pneumonia. Chest radiographs were normal at least initially in three patients with abnormal scans and P. carinii pneumonia. Unusually prominent colonic activity was associated with infection in some patients. No lesions of Kaposi sarcoma showed tracer uptake. Gallium scanning is useful for detecting P. carinii pneumonia and other opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS, but it is not useful for localizing Kaposi sarcoma.},
doi = {10.1148/radiology.162.2.3492009},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7091274}, journal = {Radiology; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1987}
}